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porty-eight members of the LUS^ f EMlily are buried here, . .*
is;luding several sons of the. original pioncer Joseph Who gave
his nae to ~uskville. He is buried at.St., L~ke's. Bath Isaac
Luçk and bis son J. F. ~usk were rnayors of ~mdley. Sixteen memg
bers of the Faris fmily are buried here ir tkie earlier generations
of the fmily were enterred in Bellevue, rvld others at St. ~uke*~~
Pink's Cemetery in Lucerne, and others elsewhere in the region.
There are stanes to fourteen Findlays- and an equal'number .of
Hetheringtons, as well as eleven Davises and ten Bradys. The
Swth family are descendantô of Joseph Swth (MW 15,1849-J~e 59
1935) and his wife Mary Acres (~eb. i?,1848-~eb. 20,1931) who
moved across the Piver from Tarbolton Twp. around 1886.
About haf of the burials before 1900 were of children under
f ive years of age, but since the turn of the cen- only two
~ton@S have been erected bearing the names of infants. No Sewer
than twelve of the 161 people whose deaths are recorded an ston6a
here were over ninety years of age, including &a. J, G: Smyth
(#44) who::e lif e spanned Canada's f irst century. Farty-f our per
cent of the burials (80 people) were oves 'ssventy years of age,
A number of the 78 stanes bear the names of people stlll .liviw,
and aeveral oYnsrse give -no agas ' bf death. . .
Of particular interest is the attractive moniïneht to the wife
of COL Eric Acland of Aylmer. Although of recent da*, it 1s one
of the few stones in the Ottawa men whioh bears a cont of ams.
The most recént burial is that of Isaac James Hetheriwton of
Toronho, who died in Belleville on Sept, 8, 1974 at the age of 66,
followigg an ~utomobile accident, He was a son of William R.
IIetherington.
Short mention of Centre Eardley United Church ii fowd in the
nccount of Aylmer United Church in "Church of the Week'Vby marion
G. Rogers, Ottawa Journal, Jan. 29, 1972, p.. 34.

Bruce S. Elliatt.

Recorded Sept. 5, 1974 by Bruce Elliatt.
Checked Sept, 5, 1974 by M. E. Elliott.